The Watchman On The Wall

Eph 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Verse 13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

Thursday, October 29, 2015

The
Russian air force carried out heavy bombing attacks on Thursday morning,
October 29, against rebel targets in southern Syria, including the Daraa area adjacent to the Golan.
The loud explosions could be heard in the southern section of the Israeli side
of the border.

Friends,
get ready for another “false flag” attack because Andrew
Parker, director-general of Britain's MI5 intelligence service, warned
Wednesday that British jihadists are planning to carry out a major attack in
the UK, saying that the treat was the most serious in his entire 32-year
career. While delivering an annual defense and security lecture in London, he
added that "More than 750 extremists from this country have travelled to
Syria, and the growth in the threat shows no sign of abating."

The
former president of Iran, Rafsanjani, said on Wednesday that his country
has never given up its plan to develop a military nuclear program. He said in
parallel to Iran's development of civilian nuclear facilities for peaceful
purposes, the country has planned to build a nuclear bomb in response to the
military threat against its people, and has never abandoned that plan.

US
Secretary of State John Kerry said Wednesday that Washington will increase both
its diplomatic efforts and its aid to moderate rebel groups in order to put an
end to the civil war and the "hell" in Syria. The talks will be
held Thursday in Vienna.

A
senior UN official said Wednesday in Jerusalem that Israelis and Palestinians
will face a catastrophe if the ongoing wave of terror, including vehicular
attacks and stabbings by Palestinians in Jerusalem and the West Bank, does not
end soon. Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights,
said "The violence between Palestinians and the Israelis will draw us ever
closer to a catastrophe if not stopped immediately."

Russia
announced that it will receive intelligence information from the Lebanese air
force as well as military, tactical and ground data from Hizbollah to boost its
military operations in Syria. Lebanon's air force will provide Russia with data
on its flights while Hizbollah is to inform Moscow of the locations of its
positions and the movements of its fighters so the Russian military will not
accidentally fire on them.The
announcement came less than 24 hours after David Cohen, deputy head of the CIA, above,
visited Beirut and met with senior Lebanese defense and intelligence officials
to discuss the operational needs of the country's intelligence and
security services.

Jane Kiel, a
Danish pro-Israel activist better known as "Jerusalem Jane," managed
to record the blatant discrimination she faced Wednesday morning at the Temple
Mount, where Jordanian Waqf guards kicked her off the site for two months ago
singing a prayer there. Kiel told Arutz Sheva she has complained to the police
and contacted governmental ministers, but that her hopes are low that any
action will be taken over the harassment she suffered. The incident occurred
around 9:30 a.m., when she and a friend were simply visiting the holiest site
in Judaism before a Waqf guard suddenly approached her and called her by name.

The guard can be seen in video from the
incident telling her that the entire Mount is a "mosque," and saying
that all prayer is illegal for non-Muslims in the entire compound. He played a
recording of her singing the Shema Yisrael prayer at the Mount two months ago,
and said "we waited two months for you." Demanding to see her ring
with Hebrew writing on it, he termed her a "born again believer," and
said "the only religious who can come here are Muslims, no Christians or
Jews." The statement is a blatant violation of Israeli freedom of movement
laws, not to mention the freedom of worship laws that the government has
allowed the Waqf to breach for non-Muslims at the site. Prime Minister Netanyahu recently agreed to
post video cameras on the Mount to help the Waqf ban Jews from exercising their
right to pray at their holiest site. Jane revealed, "I filed a
complaint to the police at Jaffa (Yafo) gate today, as I also did on that day
when the Waqf guard took my phone and deleted all the messages and videos I had
made." "They, the police are nice when I am in the office but they
can’t really do much," she noted. Kiel has received countless death
threats over the last ten months for documenting Muslim harassment of Jewish
visitors to the holy site. She added that she has opened a complaint file with
the police over the threats, but has yet to see any action taken on the matter.

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Luke Rudkowski, in the video below, examines how Russia just won and took over the Middle East.

This was not the
first attempt by the Palestinians in recent days to get the UN to take action
against Israel.

The Palestinian Authority recently backed down on a resolution it was planning
to submit to the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
seeking to claim the Kotel (Western Wall) as a Muslim holy site, wresting the
Kotel from the Jewish nation and claiming it as its own.

The area known as the Kotel was originally a part of the outer, western
retaining wall of the Second Holy Temple that was destroyed in the year 70 CE.
It has been sacred to Jews and Christians for 2,000 years. The millennia-long
holiness of the Kotel derives from its association with the Temple Mount, where
the two previous Holy Temples stood.

Israel’s Foreign Ministry called the recent efforts “a clear endeavor to
distort history, in order to erase the connection between the Jewish people and
its holiest site, and to create a false reality.”

Despite protests by Palestinian leaders, observers say that claims of Israeli
plans to restrict Muslims from the Temple Mount contradict the facts on the
ground. Jews and Christians are in fact the ones barred from the mount during
most hours of the day and are never allowed to pray at the site or carry holy
objects.

Those rules,
enforced by the Israeli police, are imposed by the real custodians of the
Temple Mount, the Waqf, which is controlled jointly by the Palestinians and the
Jordanians. Young Muslim men only find themselves restricted from the area as a
result of stone throwing or other violence.

The United States has also been drawn into the controversy and recently met
with Jordanian and Palestinian leaders about the situation on the temple mount.
US Secretary of State John
Kerry's proposed solution to keeping the “status quo” involves 24-hour video
surveillance of the temple mount area. The Palestinians, Jordanians
and Israelis have all indicated an openness to this plan although it is unclear
at this point who will be controlling and monitoring the cameras.

Some Bible prophecy
students point out the interesting verses in Revelation 11 which speak of the
whole world being able to watch what happens in Jerusalem when God's Two
Witnesses are killed on the streets and left there for three and a half days,
where they then rise from the dead. Although it is unclear from scripture
where in Jerusalem they will be slain, the Temple Mount area would be a likely
place in which they would deliver a message to the people of Jerusalem.

Controversial
personal views on the Temple Mount continue to persist at various levels. Recently
well-known cleric and Muslim preacher, Sheik Khaled Al-Mughrabi, sensationally
claimed that Jews will eventually build a temple outside of the area of the
Temple Mount, where they will worship the devil “because the Anti-Christ won’t
appear unless this Temple is built and the Devil is worshiped there.”

He further taught that at the “end of time,” Muslims will seek out and destroy
Jews wherever they are, and that Jews will be forced to change their plans to
build the Temple inside the structure of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and will have to
build it outside the Al-Aqsa Mosque. The children of Israel will all be
exterminated, the Anti-Christ will be killed and the Muslims will live in comfort
for a long time.

Mughrabi’s statements do not align with Biblical Scripture from the Christian
viewpoint, even though there are a few parallel themes such as the rise of the
Anti-Christ, his prominent role in Israel and his eventual claim to be God in
the rebuilt Temple.

The Biblical accounts state, in part that, before its final glory, Jerusalem
will experience trouble and will be burdensome, just as we are seeing today:

And it shall come to pass on that day that I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone
for all peoples; all who bear it shall be gashed, and all the nations of the
earth shall gather against it.” (Zechariah 12:3)

The Jerusalem conflict,
the Temple Mount controversies and increasing international concern and
involvement, all point to Jerusalem’s rapid transformation into the prophesied
“burdensome stone for all peoples” in these last days.

US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter
said Tuesday that Washington is interested in tightening its defense ties with
Israel in light of the security challenges in the Middle East, adding that
"the defense relationship with Israel is stronger than ever."
During an appearance with Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon in Washington,
he also said "Israel is a cornerstone of our strategy in the Middle East,
and its security is a top priority for America, for our military, and President
Obama and me personally."

Carter and Yaalon are due to visit the
Naval Air Station in Maryland on Wednesday for a demonstration of the F-35
joint strike fighter. The United States has said it will deliver the F-35 to
Israel next year, making it the only country in the Middle East to have the
top-flight aircraft.

In a speech to the UN Human
Rights Council in Geneva on Wednesday, Palestinian Authority Chairman Abu Mazen
(Mahmoud Abbas) called for the formation of a special body to protect
Palestinians, alleging Israel is engaging in "extrajudicial
killings." He claimed that if the situation deteriorates it would
"kill the last shred of hope for the two-state-solution-based peace."

Iranian Foreign Minister
Mohammad Javad Zarif and three of his deputies will participate in the next
round of multilateral talks on the future of Syria, reports said. It is
the first time that Iran, which supports the regime of Syrian President
Bashar Assad, has been invited to international discussions on finding a
way to end the civil war. Zarif and his delegation will join representatives
from the US, Russia, France, the EU, Egypt, Iraq, Turkey, the UAE and Lebanon
at the talks on Thursday in Vienna.

David Cohen, deputy head of
the CIA, paid a lightning visit to Beirut several days ago.
During the visit that only lasted several hours, he met with Lebanese Interior
Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq, above, the head of Lebanon's intelligence services Abbas
Ibrahim and chief of staff Jean Kahwaji to discuss ways of dealing with radical
militants. In another meeting with Lebanese intelligence officials he discussed
the operational needs of the country's security and intelligence services.

Basel Ghattas, above, of the United
Arab List was blasted by fellow parliamentarians from right and left for
sneaking past police guards to visit Temple Mount Wednesday. Prime Minister
Binyamin Netanyahu said that his request to all Knesset members, Arabs and Jews
alike, to avoid visiting the holy compound for now had contributed to the
abating of violence, which was alleged to have sparked the current wave of
Palestinian terror. Ghattas’ action was a provocation and could only cause
needless bloodshed, said Public Security Minister Gilead Erdan.

The deputy commander of the
Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said Tuesday that his forces in Syria
would strengthen the country's regime because it is "on the
front facing the American and Israeli enemies," adding that the
IRGC's presence and its assistance to the Syrian army are strategically
important. Brig. Gen. Hossein Salami, above, added that Iran is assisting Syrian
President Bashar Assad in four ways: strategic assistance, including aid to the
Syrian army; operational support in the war against rebel groups; tactical
assistance, such as deployment of Iranian troops; and logistical, technical and
organizational support.Salami also
said that recent Iranian television footage showing tunnels containing
launchers and long-range missiles was filmed some time ago, and that Iran's
newest underground facilities have yet to be revealed.